With an embedded secure WAN Gateway that provides unified connectivity and enforcement of global policy across on-premises and cloud-network environments with zero-touch provisioning, automated VPN management and next generation firewall and threat protection capabilities.

Network Efficiency

Automatic identification and classification of over 1,300 applications

Flexibility for upgrades and enabling or disabling SD WAN capabilities

Operational Efficiency

Simplified management and less hardware in single appliance solution

Streamlined branch configuration

More resilient, highly available WAN with full, dynamic use of multiple links at branches

Business Productivity

Exceptional end-user experience

IT Agility to support business goals

Competitive advantage

Riverbed has helped us feel bigger, move faster, and be more agile.Beverly Maestas, VP of Technology Operations, CenterPointe Properties

What Can You Save? What Can You Gain?

IDC conducted detailed interviews with nine organizations to understand the impact of optimizing the delivery of business applications with Riverbed SteelHead.

IDC calculates that organizations will realize benefits worth an average of $27,014 per 100 users ($7.23 million per organization) per year over three years, which translates to a projected three-year return on investment (ROI) of 497%.

Customer Stories for SteelHead SD

Click each customer logo to see how SteelHead delivers the application performance and lower operational costs that customers need.

SteelConnect SD-WAN lets OpenEye quickly expand its network while connecting team members to its cloud-based pharmaceutical design platform in minutes, compared to months required previously. SteelConnect also provides the scalability needed to expand SaaS offerings.

OpenEye Scientific is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Fe, NM, with offices in Boston, Cologne, and Tokyo. It was founded in 1997 to develop large-scale molecular modeling applications and toolkits that are primarily used for pharmaceutical discovery and design, reducing time to market for new pharmaceuticals.

SteelConnect enables us to be far more agile, which is really good for our growing business.Craig Bruce , Scientific Software Developer, OpenEye

GHD needed a simple, cost-effective solution to enable the rapid deployment of 50 new sites.

When global professional services company GHD merged with North American engineering consultancy Conestoga-Rovers and Associates (CRA), it added more than 3,000 employees in 100 offices, including 50 small sites. They needed a simple, cost-effective solution to enable the rapid deployment of those new sites onto the company’s network. Riverbed SteelConnect has helped GHD achieve this, fueling stronger collaboration amongst its project teams spread across the globe, business agility and cost savings of an anticipated USD 1 million a year.

GHD deployed Riverbed’s SD-WAN solution SteelConnect across 50 new offices in just four weeks, and we anticipate saving $1 million annually.Elizabeth Harper, CIO, GHD

SimplePay Group Selects Riverbed as its Software-defined Networking Partner to Scale its Business Globally

SimplePay opened its doors in Sydney in 2012, quickly establishing itself as a leading payment processing company in Australia. The company’s core value proposition is its market-leading ability to securely process large volumes of transactions across markets and currencies on a single platform. SimplePay solutions address data integrity, privacy and security policies and cover more payment methods than any other provider.

The systems were working fine for us locally in Australia, but I recognized early on that they couldn’t be easily scaled across the globe or easily managed from a reliability and sustainability perspective. We didn’t want to have to drop IT staff in to every new location.Rob Gillan, Chief Technology Officer, SimplePay

Technical Specifications

Need help choosing the SD-WAN product that’s right for your organization?

Model

Branch Office SteelHead

Mid-Size Office SteelHead

CX255 Series

CX570 Series

CX770 Series

Configurations

U

L

M

H

L

M

H

L

M

H

Profile

Desktop

Upgradeable To

255 L/M/H

255M/H

255H

-

570 M/H

570-H

-

770-M/H

770H

-

Optimized WAN Capacity(a)

2 Mbps

6 Mbps

10 Mbps(c)

10 Mbps

20 Mbps(c)

30 Mbps(c)

Network Services - WAN Capacity(b)

10 Mbps(c)

30 Mbps(c)

50 Mbps(c)

100 Mbps(c)

150 Mbps(c)

Data Store Capacity

50 GB

70 GB SSD

150 GB SSD

SteelHead SD Capable

No

Yes

Yes

Learn more about our SD-WAN solutions in the SteelHead SD Data Sheet and SteelConnect Data Sheet.
Understand the technical characteristics and requirements of each SteelHead SD model in the SteelHead Family Spec Sheet.